WO2018234445A1 - Dispositif de manipulation de microgoutlette - Google Patents

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WO2018234445A1
WO2018234445A1 PCT/EP2018/066573 EP2018066573W WO2018234445A1 WO 2018234445 A1 WO2018234445 A1 WO 2018234445A1 EP 2018066573 W EP2018066573 W EP 2018066573W WO 2018234445 A1 WO2018234445 A1 WO 2018234445A1
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Thomas Henry ISAAC
Pedro Cunha
Eoin SHERIDAN
David Love
Rebecca Palmer
Douglas J. Kelly
Gareth PODD
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Priority to EP18732778.8A priority patent/EP3641934A1/fr
Priority to US16/625,068 priority patent/US11135588B2/en
Priority to BR112019027761-7A priority patent/BR112019027761B1/pt
Priority to CA3067169A priority patent/CA3067169A1/fr
Priority to CN202210276084.6A priority patent/CN114653413B/zh
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Priority to CN201880041806.1A priority patent/CN110831697B/zh
Priority to AU2018288532A priority patent/AU2018288532B2/en
Priority to JP2019570947A priority patent/JP7171627B2/ja
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Priority to IL271537A priority patent/IL271537A/en
Priority to US17/466,377 priority patent/US11904319B2/en
Priority to US17/969,001 priority patent/US20230042172A1/en
Priority to JP2022176119A priority patent/JP7335415B2/ja
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  • This invention relates to a device suitable for the manipulation of microdroplets for example in fast-processing chemical reactions and/or in chemical analyses carried out on multiple analytes simultaneously.
  • microfluidic devices which include a microfluidic cavity defined by first and second walls and wherein the first wall is of composite design and comprised of substrate, photoconductive and insulating (dielectric) layers. Between the photoconductive and insulating layers is disposed an array of conductive cells which are electrically isolated from one another and coupled to the photoactive layer and whose functions are to generate corresponding discrete droplet-receiving locations on the insulating layer. At these locations, the surface tension properties of the droplets can be modified by means of an electrowetting field.
  • the conductive cells may then be switched by light impinging on the photoconductive layer.
  • This approach has the advantage that switching is made much easier and quicker although its utility is to some extent still limited by the arrangement of the electrodes. Furthermore, there is a limitation as to the speed at which droplets can be moved and the extent to which the actual droplet pathway can be varied.
  • a double-walled embodiment of this latter approach has been disclosed in University of California at Berkeley thesis UCB/EECS-2015-119 by Pei.
  • a cell is described which allows the manipulation of relatively large droplets in the size range 100-500 ⁇ using optical electrowetting across a surface of Teflon AF deposited over a dielectric layer using a light-pattern over un- patterned electrically biased amorphous silicon.
  • the dielectric layer is thin (lOOnm) and only disposed on the wall bearing the photoactive layer. This design is not well-suited to the fast manipulation of microdroplets.
  • a first transparent conductor layer on the substrate having a thickness in the range 70 to 250nm;
  • ⁇ a photoactive layer activated by electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength range 400-1000nm on the conductor layer having a thickness in the range 300-1000nm and
  • a first dielectric layer on the conductor layer having a thickness in the range 120 to 160nm
  • ⁇ optionally a second dielectric layer on the conductor layer having a thickness in the range 25 to 50nm
  • the exposed surfaces of the first and second dielectric layers are disposed less than ⁇ apart to define a microfluidic space adapted to contain microdroplets;
  • ⁇ at least one source of electromagnetic radiation having an energy higher than the bandgap of the photoexcitable layer adapted to impinge on the photoactive layer to induce corresponding ephemeral electrowetting locations on the surface of the first dielectric layer and
  • the first and second walls of the device can form or are integral with the walls of a transparent chip or cartridge with the microfluidic space sandwiched between.
  • the first substrate and first conductor layer are transparent enabling light from the source of electromagnetic radiation (for example multiple laser beams or LED diodes) to impinge on the photoactive layer.
  • the second substrate, second conductor layer and second dielectric layer are transparent so that the same objective can be obtained. In yet another embodiment, all these layers are transparent.
  • the first and second substrates are made of a material which is mechanically strong for example glass metal or an engineering plastic.
  • the substrates may have a degree of flexibility.
  • the first and second substrates have a thickness in the range 100-1000 ⁇ .
  • the first and second conductor layers are located on one surface of the first and second substrates and are typically have a thickness in the range 70 to 250nm, preferably 70 to 150nm.
  • at least one of these layers is made of a transparent conductive material such as Indium Tin Oxide (ITO), a very thin film of conductive metal such as silver or a conducting polymer such as PEDOT or the like.
  • ITO Indium Tin Oxide
  • PEDOT conducting polymer
  • These layers may be formed as a continuous sheet or a series of discrete structures such as wires.
  • the conductor layer may be a mesh of conductive material with the electromagnetic radiation being directed between the interstices of the mesh.
  • the photoactive layer is suitably comprised of a semiconductor material which can generate localised areas of charge in response to stimulation by the source of electromagnetic radiation.
  • a semiconductor material which can generate localised areas of charge in response to stimulation by the source of electromagnetic radiation. Examples include hydrogenated amorphous silicon layers having a thickness in the range 300 to lOOOnm.
  • the photoactive layer is activated by the use of visible light.
  • the photoactive layer in the case of the first wall and optionally the conducting layer in the case of the second wall are coated with a dielectric layer which is typically in the thickness range from 120 to 160nm.
  • the dielectric properties of this layer preferably include a high dielectric strength of >10 ⁇ 7 V/m and a dielectric constant of >3.
  • it is as thin as possible consistent with avoiding dielectric breakdown.
  • the dielectric layer is selected from high purity alumina or silica, hafnia or a thin non-conducting polymer film.
  • At least the first dielectric layer are coated with an anti-fouling layer to assist in the establishing the desired microdroplet/oil/surface contact angle at the various electrowetting locations, and additionally to prevent the contents of the droplets adhering to the surface and being diminished as the droplet is moved across the device.
  • the second wall does not comprise a second dielectric layer
  • the second anti-fouling layer may applied directly onto the second conductor layer.
  • the anti-fouling layer should assist in establishing a microdroplet/carrier/surface contact angle that should be in the range 50-70° when measured as an air-liquid-surface three- point interface at 25°C.
  • these layer(s) have a thickness of less than 50nm and are typically a monomolecular layer.
  • these layers are comprised of a polymer of an acrylate ester such as methyl methacrylate or a derivative thereof substituted with hydrophilic groups; e.g. alkoxysilyl.
  • acrylate ester such as methyl methacrylate or a derivative thereof substituted with hydrophilic groups; e.g. alkoxysilyl.
  • hydrophilic groups e.g. alkoxysilyl.
  • the anti-fouling layers are hydrophobic to ensure optimum performance.
  • the first and second dielectric layers and therefore the first and second walls define a microfluidic space which is less than ⁇ in width and in which the microdroplets are contained.
  • the microdroplets themselves have an intrinsic diameter which is more than 10% greater, suitably more than 20% greater, than the width of the microdroplet space. This may be achieved, for example, by providing the device with an upstream inlet, such as a microfluidic orifice, where microdroplets having the desired diameter are generated in the carrier medium. By this means, on entering the device the microdroplets are caused to undergo compression leading to enhanced electrowetting performance through greater contact with the first dielectric layer.
  • the microfluidic space includes one or more spacers for holding the first and second walls apart by a predetermined amount.
  • Options for spacers includes beads or pillars, ridges created from an intermediate resist layer which has been produced by photo- patterning.
  • Various spacer geometries can be used to form narrow channels, tapered channels or partially enclosed channels which are defined by lines of pillars. By careful design, it is possible to use these structures to aid in the deformation of the microdroplets, subsequently perform droplet splitting and effect operations on the deformed droplets.
  • the first and second walls are biased using a source of A/C power attached to the conductor layers to provide a voltage potential difference therebetween; suitably in the range 10 to 50 volts.
  • the device of the invention further includes a source of electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength in the range 400-lOOOnm and an energy higher than the bandgap of the photoexcitable layer.
  • the photoactive layer will be activated at the electrowetting locations where the incident intensity of the radiation employed is in the range 0.01 to 0.2 Wcm "2 .
  • the source of electromagnetic radiation is, in one embodiment, highly attenuated and in another pixellated so as to produce corresponding photoexcited regions on the photoactive layer which are also pixellated. By this means corresponding electrowetting locations on the first dielectric layer which are also pixellated are induced.
  • the optimised structure design taught here is particularly advantageous in that the resulting composite stack has the anti-fouling and contact-angle modifying properties from the coated monolayer (or very thin functionalised layer) combined with the performance of a thicker intermediate layer having high-dielectric strength and high-dielectric constant (such as aluminium oxide or Hafnia).
  • the resulting layered structure is highly suitable for the manipulation of very small volume droplets, such as those having diameter less than ⁇ , for example in the range 2 to 8, 2 to 6 or 2 to 4 ⁇ .
  • the performance advantage of a having the total non-conducting stack above the photoactive layer is extremely advantageous, as the droplet dimensions start to approach the thickness of the dielectric stack and hence the field gradient across the droplet (a requirement for electrowetting-induced motion) is reduced for the thicker dielectric.
  • the source of electromagnetic radiation is pixellated it is suitably supplied either directly or indirectly using a reflective screen illuminated by light from LEDs.
  • a reflective screen illuminated by light from LEDs This enables highly complex patterns of ephemeral electrowetting locations to be rapidly created and destroyed in the first dielectric layer thereby enabling the microdroplets to be precisely steered along arbitrary ephemeral pathways using closely-controlled electrowetting forces. This is especially advantageous when the aim is to manipulate many thousands of such microdroplets simultaneously along multiple electrowetting pathways.
  • Such electrowetting pathways can be viewed as being constructed from a continuum of virtual electrowetting locations on the first dielectric layer.
  • the points of impingement of the sources of electromagnetic radiation on the photoactive layer can be any convenient shape including the conventional circular.
  • the morphologies of these points are determined by the morphologies of the corresponding pixelattions and in another correspond wholly or partially to the morphologies of the microdroplets once they have entered the microfluidic space.
  • the points of impingement and hence the electrowetting locations may be crescent-shaped and orientated in the intended direction of travel of the microdroplet.
  • the electrowetting locations themselves are smaller than the microdroplet surface adhering to the first wall and give a maximal field intensity gradient across the contact line formed between the droplet and the surface dielectric.
  • the second wall also includes a photoactive layer which enables ephemeral electrowetting locations to also be induced on the second dielectric layer by means of the same or different source of electromagnetic radiation.
  • the addition of a second dielectric layer enables transition of the wetting edge from the upper to the lower surface of the electrowetting device, and the application of more electrowetting force to each microdroplet.
  • the device of the invention may further include a means to analyse the contents of the microdroplets disposed either within the device itself or at a point downstream thereof.
  • this analysis means may comprise a second source of electromagnetic radiation arranged to impinge on the microdroplets and a photodetector for detecting fluorescence emitted by chemical components contained within.
  • the device may include an upstream zone in which a medium comprised of an emulsion of aqueous microdroplets in an immiscible carrier fluid is generated and thereafter introduced into the microfluidic space on the upstream side of the device.
  • the device may comprise a flat chip having a body formed from composite sheets corresponding to the first and second walls which define the microfluidic space therebetween and at least one inlet and outlet.
  • the means for manipulating the points of impingement of the electromagnetic radiation on the photoactive layer is adapted or programmed to produce a plurality of concomitantly-running, for example parallel, first electrowetting pathways on the first and optionally the second dielectric layers.
  • it is adapted or programmed to further produce a plurality of second electrowetting pathways on the first and/or optionally the second dielectric layers which intercept with the first electrowetting pathways to create at least one microdroplet-coalescing location where different microdroplets travelling along different pathways can be caused to coalesce.
  • the first and second electrowetting pathway may intersect at right-angles to each other or at any angle thereto including head-on.
  • a method for manipulating aqueous microdroplets characterised by the steps of (a) introducing an emulsion of the microdroplets in an immiscible carrier medium into a microfluidic space having a defined by two opposed walls spaced ⁇ or less apart and respectively comprising:
  • ⁇ a first transparent conductor layer on the substrate having a thickness in the range 70 to 250nm;
  • ⁇ a photoactive layer activated by electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength range 400-1000nm on the conductor layer having a thickness in the range 300-1000nm and
  • a first dielectric layer on the conductor layer having a thickness in the range 120 to 160nm; • a second composite wall comprised of:
  • ⁇ a second conductor layer on the substrate having a thickness in the range 70 to 250nm and
  • ⁇ optionally a second dielectric layer on the conductor layer having a thickness in the range 120 to 160nm;
  • the emulsion employed in the method defined above is an emulsion of aqueous microdroplets in an immiscible carrier solvent medium comprised of a hydrocarbon, fluorocarbon or silicone oil and a surfactant.
  • the surfactant is chosen so as ensure that the microdroplet/carrier medium/electrowetting location contact angle is in the range 50 to 70° when measured as described above.
  • the carrier medium has a low kinematic viscosity for example less than 10 centistokes at 25°C.
  • the microdroplets disposed within the microfluidic space are in a compressed state.
  • Figure 1 shows a cross-sectional view of a device according to the invention suitable for the fast manipulation of aqueous microdroplets 1 emulsified into a hydrocarbon oil having a viscosity of 5 centistokes or less at 25°C and which in their unconfined state have a diameter of less than ⁇ (e.g. in the range 4 to 8 ⁇ ).
  • It comprises top and bottom glass plates (2a and 2b) each 500 ⁇ thick coated with transparent layers of conductive Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) 3 having a thickness of 130nm.
  • ITO Indium Tin Oxide
  • Each of 3 is connected to an A/C source 4 with the ITO layer on 2b being the ground.
  • 2b is coated with a layer of amorphous silicon 5 which is 800nm thick.
  • 2a and 5 are each coated with a 160nm thick layer of high purity alumina or Hafnia 6 which are in turn coated with a monolayer of poly(3-(trimethoxysilyl)propyl methacrylate) 7 to render the surfaces of 6 hydrophobic.
  • 2a and 5 are spaced 8 ⁇ apart using spacers (not shown) so that the microdroplets undergo a degree of compression when introduced into the device.
  • An image of a reflective pixelated screen, illuminated by an LED light source 8 is disposed generally beneath 2b and visible light (wavelength 660 or 830nm) at a level of O.OlWcm 2 is emitted from each diode 9 and caused to impinge on 5 by propagation in the direction of the multiple upward arrows through 2b and 3.
  • photoexcited regions of charge 10 are created in 5 which induce modified liquid-solid contact angles in 6 at corresponding electrowetting locations 11.
  • These modified properties provide the capillary force necessary to propel the microdroplets 1 from one point 11 to another. 8 is controlled by a microprocessor 12 which determines which of 9 in the array are illuminated at any given time by pre-programmed algorithms.
  • Figure 2 shows a top-down plan of a microdroplet 1 located on a region of 6 on the bottom surface bearing a microdroplet 1 with the dotted outline la delimiting the extent of touching.
  • 11 is crescent-shaped in the direction of travel of 1.

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Abstract

L'invention concerne un dispositif de manipulation de microgouttelettes utilisant un électro-mouillage à médiation optique et caractérisé en ce qu'il comprend essentiellement :-une première paroi composite comprenant : Un premier substrat transparent. Une première couche conductrice transparente sur le substrat; Une couche photo-active activée par un rayonnement électromagnétique dans la plage de longueurs d'onde 400-1000 nm sur la couche conductrice et une première couche diélectrique sur la couche conductrice ayant une épaisseur dans la plage de 120-160 nm;-une seconde paroi composite comprenant : un second substrat. Une seconde couche conductrice sur le substrat et. facultativement, une seconde couche diélectrique sur la couche conductrice, les surfaces exposées des première et seconde couches diélectriques étant disposées à une distance inférieure à 10 pm pour définir un espace microfluidique conçu pour contenir des microgouttelettes;-une source A/C, une source de rayonnement électromagnétique et des moyens pour créer au moins une voie d'électromouillage le long de laquelle les microgouttelettes peuvent être amenées à se déplacer.
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CN201880041806.1A CN110831697B (zh) 2017-06-21 2018-06-21 微滴操控设备和使用该设备操控水性微滴的方法
SG11201912282YA SG11201912282YA (en) 2017-06-21 2018-06-21 Microdroplet manipulation device
AU2018288532A AU2018288532B2 (en) 2017-06-21 2018-06-21 Microdroplet manipulation device
US16/625,068 US11135588B2 (en) 2017-06-21 2018-06-21 Microdroplet manipulation device
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